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Transmission lines key to wind project
Representatives of British Petroleum Wind Energy are wooing Pratt County farmers to use their land for development of a possible wind farm in Pratt County while BP is finishing preparations to put their Flat Ridge Wind Farm with 40 wind turbines into operation in Barber County.
February 19, 2009
by Gale Rose
in The Pratt Tribune
Pratt, Kan. - Representatives of British Petroleum Wind Energy are wooing Pratt County farmers to use their land for development of a possible wind farm in Pratt County while BP is finishing preparations to put their Flat Ridge Wind Farm with 40 wind turbines into operation in Barber County.
The last of the wind generators is undergoing the required 96 hours of testing before Flat Ridge has a ribbon cutting some time in the first or second week of March, said Mark Wengierski, BP land development manager at the Pratt Rotary Club meeting on Thursday.
The tests determine if the generator... [continue via Web link]
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